Southern Legends

Matt Headley

Stories, essays, and dispatches from Northeast Alabama — on faith, community, small business, and what it means to build a life in a place people overlook.

Episodes

  1. Jun 2

    The Digital Gym: A Somatic Practice

    The Sunday after my first sermon in twelve months, I pulled over on the side of the road — not because something was wrong with the car, but because the comments were coming in too fast to ignore. A Facebook thread had turned into a dogpile. Then Wade Allen called. I'm calling it the Digital Gym.

    4 min

  2. Apr 20

    The Hospital

    I left the ER with a spring in my step. The next day, I called Dad to take me back.

    13 min

  3. Mar 15

    The Burning Bus

    On Mother's Day 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying Freedom Riders was firebombed outside Anniston. The attack shocked the nation and became a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. Today, the Freedom Riders National Monument preserves two sites where it happened, and forces a city to reckon with the hardest chapter in its history.

    11 min
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Stories, essays, and dispatches from Northeast Alabama — on faith, community, small business, and what it means to build a life in a place people overlook.

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